Last May a 120-year-old statue was broken in Lisbon by someone getting too close with a phone.

In 2015 a 12-year-old boy stumbled and used a $1.5 million Paolo Porpora painting to break his fall in Taipei, to make matters worse he was holding a soft drink in his hand, which went through the canvas.

And last June the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was displaying Andy Warhol’s 1963 masterpiece Triple Elvis (Ferus Type) when a visitor got all shook up and elbowed the painting, which is estimated to be worth $70 million.

And though it was not in a gallery who can forget the worst art restoration project of all time when an elderly Spanish woman admitted disfiguring a century old ‘Ecce Homo’ fresco in 2012.

God loves a trier: The fresco before and after the elderly lady’s restoration (Picture: AFP/Getty)